Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ryves Castle, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ryves Castle
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41990, -8.37635
- SMR number
- LI041-045----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on the demesne lands associated with Ryves Casle (LI041-021----), located 460m to E. A possible tree-ring (LI041-018----) lies 130m to SE. Depicted as a tree-pantation on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an area of planted trees. Monument visible as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 10m) on Google Earth orthoimages. Not depicted as an antiquity on any ed. OSi historic maps. Possible earthwork reused as a landscape feature of post-1700 date on the demesne lands of Ryves Castle.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.